Clues that you are getting old -- what are some Thai expat specific ones?

[Jingthing]

This list of some signs you are getting old (well, middle aged actually) is rather funny. Some are universal (such as hair growing in the ears) and some are British specific.

So, for fun, what are some THAI EXPAT specific signs you are getting older living in Thailand?

How do you know you’re middle-aged? How about when you wear clothes and shoes based on comfort rather than style, or grow hair in all the wrong places: nose, ears, eyebrows? Those are just two of the signs mentioned in a recent British survey about when middle age begins and how to identify it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/in-denial-that-youve-reached-middle-age-a-survey-identifies-some-telltale-signs/2013/12/13/0868a3a2-5dd4-11e3-be07-006c776266ed_story.html

[GinBoy2]

Men don't lose their hair...it relocates!

and for an expat specific...my tolerance of ear splitting music drives me crazy. Can't go into bars in Nana Plaza cos I want to go to bed too early LOL

Edited December 17, 2013 by GinBoy2

[ignis]

...Thinking there is nothing wrong with wearing an anorak.......... wish I had one now is freezing, keep going out to the garden to get some sun, but the wind is very cold....

May just as well live in Thailand and not understand anyone very much then live at home and not understand all the youngsters these days.

Did read the link, yep good......... maybe I am still middle aged reading the report, pity there is not a over 60s report along side

[ignis]

Men don't lose their hair...it relocates!

Good one, like that idea.. yes mine has fallen to the bottom of my head

[Naam]

old faithful doesn't react as he used to

[GinBoy2]

Men don't lose their hair...it relocates!

Good one, like that idea.. yes mine has fallen to the bottom of my head

Unfortunately, it's usually, nose, ears and back!

[GinBoy2]

old faithful doesn't react as he used to

They are drugs for that. I think I heard Hugh Hefner quote "Viagra extended my sex shelf life by 20 years"...way to go Hugh

[krisb]

old faithful doesn't react as he used to

Your brake foot?

[Radar501]

Clue that I'm getting old? In the shower, I scrub my scalp and shampoo my @rse. It used to be the other way round.

Thai expat specific? The need to reclaim one's youth by wearing pony tails, bandanas, thorn tattoos down one arm, riding bigmacho bikes, consorting with girls half one's weight and a third one's age.

[GarryP]

My neighbours call me Loong and they are in their mid to late thirties.

[GinBoy2]

Clue that I'm getting old? In the shower, I scrub my scalp and shampoo my @rse. It used to be the other way round.

Thai expat specific? The need to reclaim one's youth by wearing pony tails, bandanas, thorn tattoos down one arm, riding bigmacho bikes, consorting with girls half one's weight and a third one's age.

I gotta dump the missus and me me one of them 'third my age' gals, then of course I could get some brats, and stroll around the mall looking like their Grandad...true sign of an aging expat

[xen]

Half way thru a conversation and wondering what i was about to say.

[David48]

I must admit ... started coming here maybe 6 or 7 years ago ... usually stay lower Suk area.

These past two years, I started being offered Viagra by the street sellers ... previously, they'd pass me by.

Sad really ... but I reckon it's them ... not me ...

[MAJIC]

You know you are getting old when at the end of a busy day,you are actually looking forward to going to bed.................alone.

[MAJIC]

When you look behind you see who the young people are letting on the Bus first,and then realise it's you!

[Songhua]

On a trip to the cinema a couple of weeks ago I was asked for the first time ever whether I have a seniors card.

<deleted> I thought! ... then I realised that I'm actually old enough to get one.

[Gsxrnz]

Looking in the mirror while I'm shaving and seeing someone who looks more like my Dad every day looking back at me. Not that it's a problem, my Dad was a handsome looking fellow in his dotage.

And on a local note - I cooked myself my usual BIG BREAKFAST on Sunday of bacon, eggs, sausages, hash browns, baked beans, fried tomatoes, fried mushrooms, black pudding, lashings of HP Sauce......and was shocked to discover when I'd nearly finished eating it that I'd been using a bloody fork and spoon. I'm not sure if it was just the habit taking over or a grey moment.

[ccarbaugh]

For me, a new development is that I am

more frequently able to appreciate the

abundant eye-candy and recognize it for being just that.

I find myself much less willing to expose myself to the

lingering (inevitable) pain that accompanies the brief,

fleeting pleasure of partaking of said "eye-candy."

[maxman71]

On Easter Sunday, you can hide the Easter Eggs yourself and you won't know where they are hidden and join the hunt with the kids.

[maxman71]

For me, a new development is that I am

more frequently able to appreciate the

abundant eye-candy and recognize it for being just that.

I find myself much less willing to expose myself to the

lingering (inevitable) pain that accompanies the brief,

fleeting pleasure of partaking of said "eye-candy."

I've noticed the same thing...and it doesn't bother me or my wallet one little bit...but if one of the pieces of eye candy just won't take no for an answer, well, it's time to tear a page out of Hugh Hefner's playbook and forklift the One Eyed Sailor up to attention...

[JoeThePoster]

Clues that you are getting old -- what are some Thai expat specific ones?

More and more people start addressing me as "hansum man".

[Jingthing]

On a trip to the cinema a couple of weeks ago I was asked for the first time ever whether I have a seniors card.

<deleted> I thought! ... then I realised that I'm actually old enough to get one.

Aha. What age makes one eligible here?

[ignis]

Just been to the kitchen twice, but cant remember what for when arriving... make a shopping list and forget to take it... the list is endless, last night well about 8pm drove up to the little town, was not good had forgotten to put my glasses on.. guess something to do with getting older

[mancub]

When she says "take me upstairs and show me a good time " .....and you have to tell her to choose between them 'cos you can't manage both .

[David48]

Just been to the kitchen twice, but cant remember what for when arriving...

If the sun is up ... Milk

Sun down ... Beer ... sometimes when sun up also ...

[Jasun]

An extra shake at the urinals, just in case.

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[i claudius]

When you go into the shoe shop and think the slippers look very nice. now i see women in their 40's and think how young they look.

[Bernard Flint]

I can only boom boom 3 times now,its horrible

[Thaddeus]

I had a 'What The ......." moment not so long back.

Grabbed a coffee cup off the drainer, took a sachet of 3-1 out of the cupboard, ripped the top off the sachet, poured the powder in to the bin, put the empty sachet in to the cup and filled it with hot water.

[jpinx]

Girls ½ my weight and ⅓ my age are mother to a rabble of kids